Anatoly Karpov at the 41st USSR Championship (Moscow, 1973

A blog post dedicated to four key games by Anatoly Karpov played at the 41st USSR Championship - one of the strongest championships of them all - plus some brief background to the event. Karpov in play v. Polugaevsky in the 13th round of the 41st USSR Championship. (Photo credit: Novosti Press.) The 41st USSR…

Author: USSR Chess Federation signed Boris Spassky, Michal Tal, Anatoly Karpov, Alexander Beliavsky, Efim Geller, Paul Keres, Victor Korchnoi, Nukhim

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